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FC Bayern’s trip to the Club World Cup in Qatar has so far not been a good star.

The trip means a lot of stress for the team in the tight schedule of this Corona season.

And the force of the criticism of the club bosses after the flight chaos on Saturday is difficult to understand.

The German air traffic control had not given the jet with the Bavarians on board Friday evening with a view to the night flight restrictions at BER airport the take-off clearance.

The request for this had apparently come a few minutes too late.

So Munich could not fly to Qatar immediately after the 1-0 in the Bundesliga at Hertha BSC, as planned, but only with a delay of several hours and a stopover in Munich.

Club boss Karl-Heinz Rummenigge feels “totally screwed”, honorary president Uli Hoeneß speaks of a “scandal without end”.

Of course, a night in a stationary airplane is very annoying and bad for the regeneration of the players.

Especially when the schedule had been worked on with a lot of effort for weeks.

Surely everyone would have been outraged if they were on the plane on time and then the message came that the plane would not take off for a few seconds or minutes.

Bureaucracy made in Germany.

It's all about the Club World Cup, not about saving the world

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Many fans may feel confirmed in their opinion that Bayern’s statements confirm that those responsible in football live in a parallel world.

Corona has not changed much about that.

There is money and prestige to be won at the Club World Cup, the title would also help Bayern in terms of internationalization.

However, it is still about a trip to the semi-finals against Al-Ahly, not about saving the world.

Especially at this time, when almost everything stands still for many people and the lack of humility in football is discussed, a little more restraint on the part of the industry leader would have been good for German sport.

He should be grateful that games can be played at all in the pandemic.

That seems to have been forgotten at least for a short time by the people of Munich.

Bayern emphasize that they could win their sixth title at the Club World Cup in Qatar within a year and make history.

That is an understandable goal.

But not anymore.

The greed for titles that characterize this extraordinary team is no justification to rumble like the Bayern bosses this weekend.